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Monthly Archives: February 2019

When is a seller’s bid a shill bid?

February 27, 2019

Some auctions allow the seller to place bids directly or through another agent (by proxy.) Specifically, in a with reserve …

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Live, online-only or simulcast?

February 25, 2019

Many say that the live auction, online-only auction and simulcast auction are “tools in the toolbox” where auctioneers choose the …

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Is your absolute auction being advertised/conducted as such?

February 22, 2019

I’m being told that countless auctioneers across the country contract with sellers to sell everything “without reserve” a.k.a. “absolute” and …

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Online auction bidders don’t read?

February 20, 2019

I know this is probably true, and I keep hearing it from other auctioneers that it’s true so we’ll start …

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Auctioneers and confidence

February 15, 2019

I’ve heard it many times in my career — confidence is an auctioneer’s stock-in-trade, confidence is an auctioneer’s most valuable …

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What’s faster? Live auction or online auction?

February 13, 2019

I think this is a simple question: What’s faster — a live auction or an online auction? Maybe it’s not …

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“As-is” and should have known

February 11, 2019

Our topic here concerns the sale of a horse named Eloquent Diva at auction where the buyer found shortly thereafter …

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Our auction had more views …

February 7, 2019

Comparing or contrasting statistics from auctions can be fun. One auctioneer had a live auction with 450 bidders and 1,126 …

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What if the seller bids first in an absolute auction?

February 4, 2019

We previously wrote about the somewhat perplexing situation where the seller is bidding first in regard to the “last good …

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